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35 - Wednesday, February 4, 1987 - North Shore News

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GEORGE CHALKLIN knows ‘‘there’s more than one way
to see’? — the theme of this year’s awareness week by the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

The 74-year-old West Van-
couver resident, who is visually
impaired, said he’s able to travel
freely throughout the community
thanks to his mobility training with
CNIB.

‘*& lot of people don’t realize I
don’t have good vision because |
do move about so well. I’m just
tremendously grateful to
CNIB...they'’ve virtually given me
a new lease on life,’’ he said.

Chalklin said before he received
his training 2% years ago, and
began to use a CNIB white sweeper
cane, he was frightened to travel
alone in the community.

“T really didn’t know how to
approach intersections und get
across the road. But the mobility
training teaches you to wait until
you hear the cars start to rev up
and you go with the flow. It took
the fear out of moving outside the
home.”’

National White Cane Week, Feb.

_ GEORGE CHALKLIN of West

KIM PEMBERTO
News Reporter

1to 7, will be a week of special
events and demonstrations
throughout Canada to increase the
public’s awareness of blindness
and how it affects people’s lives.

Cf the 8,000 B.C. residents who
are legally blind and registered
with CNIB, about 1,000 live on the
North Shore.

CNIB public relations
spokesman Margaret Walker said
some of these local people were
among placard-holders at the en-
trance to Lions Gate Bridge Feb. 2
and 3, taking nart in a = mini-
parade.

Sandy Tupper, of North Van-
couver, was one of those
demonstrators.

Tupper, 44, is legally blind, and
works as a CNIB social worker.
Before he went back to school to

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earn his social worker degree,
Tupper worked as a warehouse
foreman and a musician.

‘*CNIB helped me with academ-
ic and career counselling. I learned
braille and touch type here, which
are very useful tools — especially
after 1 decided to go back to
school.”’

Tupper said he also makes use
of CNIB technical aids, such as a
braille watch, talking calculator
and a computer that uses a voice
synthesizer.

Walker said White Cane Week is
not a fund-raising week, but a time

* to raise awareness. It is co-spon-

sored by CNIB and the Canadian
Council of the Blind.

Some of the services offered by
CNIB_ include: preschool blind
children counselling, blind and
deaf services, rehabilitation
teaching, blind student assistance,
braille and talking books, recre-
ational programs, orientation and
mobility training, self-care
assistance, home training programs
and public education.

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